Mercur Miner | 1907-09-25 | Page 7 | Should Have Sleep Out

SHOULD HAVE SLEEP OUT. Writer Object to Custom of Arousing. I Children Early. ' Dr. Woods Hutchinson, writing of Sleep in tho American Magazine, criticizes criti-cizes boarding schools sharply for cot-tins cot-tins young pooplo up too early In the rooming. Ho says: "A baby or young I child should havo absolutely every I minute of sleep that It can bo Induced I to take, and sleeplessness Is oven more emphatically a sign of disease In children than In adults. Tho necessity and capacity for largo amounts of refreshing re-freshing sleep persists up to adult llfo and tho amount required seldom falls below ten hours before tho eighteenth or twentieth year. To mako children or rapidly growing young adults got up befqro they have Jtad tholr sleop out. and feel tEoftJuglilJestod, Is not merely, irratldnal but cruel, and when It Is dono as a routine practice at boarding schools, or other Institutions, by thoso who pretend to be fitted to havo tho caro of children It is littlo 3hort of criminal."